How To Make The Most Money From Scrap Metal! Beginners Guide to Getting Paid 

I've been doing this scarp thing for alot of years now and wish I had something like this when I 1st started I learned alot of them lessons the hard way.

I work at a scrapyard please keep informing people it makes it easier on the employees

A note for the beginners- check out newer apartment complexes, most have a compactor cor trash and an area for “recycling” where, among the boxes and furniture, I find good steel, microwaves, TVs 📺, and all kinds of appliances that are good for power-cord snipping. Had to turn down a water heater last night due to space constraints. Happy hunting!

I've watched this a dozen times because the opening skit is adorable.

Every day with a new thub vid is a good day

I wish all my customers would be like you

This scrap yard was so adorable that it made me forget that rusty old steel wheel that I just hauled up a hill for probably $2.

My yard is very flexible like they don’t care about solder etc. I use maple leaf up here in edmonton

Love the opening act! Thanks for all of the help. My wife and I are planning our first visit to our local recycling/scrap yard and your videos have been very helpful.

I got real lucky this year and found a good honest family run scrapyard where I know the scale guys and they know me. Another bonus is their prices are also 10 centsish higher than every other yard

The sketch was awesome

Wonderful advice for the newbies as well as a great reminder for the veterans in the game!

Wubb is actually harder on customers than the guy at my yard! (and he can be cranky!) 😯😆

Omg Thub I just LOVE that sketch, it’s genius xD

You are the best on-line teacher! You would be in demand for ANY subject!!

Great tips Thub! I am just getting into metal scrapping and you're the master teacher! Thanks for the very informative and entertaining videos.

Hey buddy! I love the tough negotation in the beginning. That scrap yard manager is a meanie LMAO.

I've been scrapping since I was 17 currently 36 I do it as a hobby and to help my local community and the payday is a nice treat thank you for the educational video

I had to learn the hard way... One of the things that i learned was if you have a way to weigh your Copper, do so. My scrap yard was shorting me because their scale was old and not calibrated properly. I felt like several times i had well over a 100 pounds of clean bright copper but walked away with only 75 dollars. i felt robbed this happen several times till i just couldn't sleep at night i went out and bought a package scale and started weighing my scrap before cashing in and found out that their scale was way off leading to a way higher pay out almost 3X as much.

That was the cutest skit! I love it

Thanks for the tips I am doing it more for environment, but I kind find it fascinating what we consider waste. As a reseller I come into a lot stuff so hopefully I can put a tiny dent into to the landfills.

Excellent perception of the elections and prices!!! I also noticed that over a decade ago.

thub, your my favorite scrapper to watch. Really enjoy them. Thank you

Great mix of experience research and knowledge Keep doing the thing bud

Spot on thub this was a great video man. And the intro was absolutely the best. ✌️

Hi I just found your channel I really appreciate the good quality videos and sense of humor and don't start on the amazing informative videos thanks from melbourne australia

Hey Thub: A much needed and necessary video. Thanks, man .

Good video, Thub. I love the little production goodies, and appreciate your time and effort. Mr. Wubb is growing like a WEED!

This is a great summary. Loved it! The opening scene was great, too.

Thanks for the videos! Very informative!

This was so useful !

I loved the intro, very clever. Although I'm experienced, I liked the recommendations and agree 100%. You came up as a RU-vid recommended vid - glad they did. I've subscribed.

I'm in pa and it helps to have a scrapper friend that has a pickup truck because I can't afford a truck

Good work Thub, well explained! 👍

I like how you added in brake drums And for sure on the copper no point in all that work for bare bright also the volume all at once or let them know your coming back

That introduction was brilliant.. 😂 A lot of information here. Thank you 👍

Loved the intro btw 😂😂

That sketch had me rolling, you guys play your parts well😂 keep up the great work!

You got a hundo now. That's awesome dude!!!!! Watching one of your old videos and seen you did .CONGRATS my friend

Always quality content 👌

"landfills' down the street..." great opening!

I just want to say that you are awesome Thub!

That opening? Wonderful!

amazing video man, well said on every level!!!

Priceless info 👌

Like number 1k!! Awesome informative vids man:)

This guy is giving great advice. 👍

Great pointers

Great info

great info .. I'd add "Trust" to the loyalty and volume category... here in Vegas, unless you're homies with the employees, there's a great chance you're getting raked...the Spanish, the bizarre separating, the huge delta's day to day on the same crap! It's a surprise every time!

Do you have any videos showing how to test to know what the materials are?

great stuff

All good information my friend!

This is the best beginers guide to scraping/recycling video I have found on RU-vid thanks @Thubprint

Really like your approach to scrapping👍

You make some really good very informative videos. I've been doing this ten yrs and u help me with stuff I didn't know. I feel like I'm watching bill Nye the science guy when watching your videos. It's a good thing cuz bill Nye is very smart and successful person. Anyways good job and thanks for the videos 👌

Thanks for the help

I’m a beginner scrapper and I learned the hard way I brought in three junked out refrigerators and a load of steel and of course they only gave me the cheapest price I wasn’t paying attention but I am now

That's one tuff yard boss!

another great video

Great intro. Have a good weekend.

Like your style, informative and entertaining. Watch a few different scrappers and I actually enjoy watching yours.

Great skit! The Thub and Wub show!

Thanx!!

I am really getting to enjoy your videos. You have a nice calm way to explain things & pass on such good content. PS : I really liked the funny Intro, I asume that may be your daughter , she did a great little acting job. Keep up your great channel. Ian.

Awesome way to explain it to everyone!!

Thank you sir for your insight

Thanks for making the videos. I scrap but have a much larger business model. Would love to pick your brain and i want to take my company nationwide. If you have the time or are interested let me know. But mostly keep these videos coming. They are helpful to so many.

Well, I am off to my local scrapyard tomorrow for the first time with the haul of all the stuff I've been collecting the past few weeks. I have all kinds of cheap steel from TV and microwave guts; shells of microwaves that I have completely stripped down; about 8 pounds of bare copper wire; IDK how much unstripped copper wire; a bit of aluminum; even less zinc/pot metal; a whole box of assorted coppery bits stripped off of circuit boards (I really don't know how that will go over, but I can always take them back with me); a paper grocery bag full of assorted wires from all the TVs and microwaves that isn't copper; a few choice pieces of steel that IDK if I will get anything other than shred price on; some stainless steel. I have some bits I am keeping, like electric motor pieces where I need to cut & then pound the copper out, deciding on whether to go through with that or sell them as-is, then some bits I will sell on eBay, such as circuit boards out of TVs and computers as well as a good bit of chips & wires with gold in them from flat-screens & other stuff, almost 2 pounds (~1 kilo) of really nice bits there that should bring some decent money. So, thanks for making this video, hopefully it will go well!

i scrap for my elderly dad but im learning it seems to be a amazing side hustle:)

Yes Thub is back at it! Make sure you hit up the story and community posts! Because RU-vid is perfectly balanced 👌

When i find anything on the curb that has a electric cord on it,I pick it up. Then I tear everything apart. Wires, aluminum, brass, copper and the metal. Electric motors I tear apart, all that copper. Water heaters, wire and brass.

great vid

Son look more and more like his father awesome actor skill

Yes!! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed about the election fluctuations! Very interesting to see that it affects markets in other countries as well. Is your steel price still going up or did it level out?

Very good introduction, how many 711 slurpees did it cost ? Put together some of the yards that post their prices on the net.

Great video! Also people should be considerate and empty out why fluids that may be in certain things, i took in a my transmission and when the guy asked if it had fluid i answered no i emptied it and the look on his face was like wow someone actually was considerate lol.

would you scrap silver ware? .925 sterling 150 lbs.

The best drive is to leave the shortest exit

Professor Thub's class is in session.

I am deposit container, but I have come to ascertain that it judicious to limit it to street bins only and make it nil residential. Case in point - I'm going to the TOMRA outlet, I raid a unit block bin on the way there just for deposit containers otherwise landfill bound, and it came to some 20s something female with her cell camera going, " Ninn ninn, blibber, blibber, you've caused this OTHER bin to be locked ". And I'm thinking, ' Yeah, all on your own instigation, you jealous slag. '. This is what is meant by garbage dumps would be otherwise stacked high with them. .There are categorical differences between the two local scrap yards here. The smaller yard, a sub-outlet of a well known global conglomerate, will readily take workable amounts of aluminium foil and aluminium tray, and pay electronically on the given weight, whilst the other yard won't whizz on that stuff.

How much do they give you for old broken lawn mowers? After you drain the oil out?

Lmao the keys 😂

Hey thub, looks like there might be some good scrap over at 2126 Glenmore Court SE. if interested

The part about pencils was just a joke right; I mean pencils have lead and that is the same as a car battery right? 1/4 of my garage is full of partly used and some chewed pencils just waiting for a good lead price.

Hilarious skit bro!

hi canada do i need junking sertifikat or not ?

Hey thub, I have a minivan I have to take into a scrap yard... It is still running barley. just a 2002 montana. Do you know the best place to take it in Calgary?

Do they by ingots of metal???

Can you show me how to scrap electric power saws for the best value as iv a few to scrap

How about metal shed. Is that recyclable? And what would it go under?

2 Thubs up!!

I screwed up i had like 200 aluminum radiators with plastic ends i took all the plastic off took like half a day the guy at the yard made a good point the plastics ends weigh lot compared to the price differnece said i would have made more money leaving the plastic on ugh

Let's go

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How to make the most money from scrap metal : .find metal then cash it in .post videos about finding and cashing in metal

very hard to find an honest scrap yard to buy your scrap metal

Eagle recycle cans bottles and milk jugs we try and get it full price of them to my doc you what stuff is in it the liquid is that full price of them !!!!

Oh my goodness the intro qas so cute and fun

Do you go to scrap yard to picky for your wire copper brass aluminum say this to them put back on the truck I go somewhere else !!!!